Station attendants shove limbs poking out from doorways back inside, trying to squeeze just one more passenger into the already overfull train cars... The foreign media often use this image of commuter trains as symbolic of Japan, portraying it as some strange rigorous test of endurance. We spoke with three foreign residents from Australia, Russia and China with actual experience of Japanese commuter trains, asking them what they thought of them compared with the situation in their home countries. Do Japanese commuter trains get a thumbs up , or a thumbs down?…